Angliana Avenue development gets preliminary nod

A proposed development that would put a multi-screen theater, a bowling alley, restaurants, stores and apartments on Angliana Avenue breezed through a preliminary approval from the Planning Commission on Thursday.

Next stop: the Urban County Council, possibly as early as next week, to start an application for tax increment financing to pay for things such as burying transmission power lines and building a pedestrian bridge across railroad tracks.

The project is in an area once dominated by tobacco warehouses. One warehouse that a member of the city's planning staff described as exceptionally well-built will be converted into shops and restaurants.

The developer behind the project is George Krikorian, who has built a string of theater complexes in Southern California, some combining new construction and renovated buildings. He breeds and trains racehorses in Woodford County.

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